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06 Mar 2021, 6:11 am
Why so many are like this is a great mystery in a country so fortunate and wealthy like American?
a logical outgrowth of our calvinist heritage, of darwinistic "sink or swim" and "all for me and the devil take the hindmost" rampant individualism. the mobs are the fruits of these awful philosophies.
Yes the calvinist influence is most intriguing to me as an Australian. Most Americans don't know their puritan forebears burned innocent women at the stake in Salem and developed strange cults that forbade sex (which obviously died out
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06 Mar 2021, 6:22 am
Why so many are like this is a great mystery in a country so fortunate and wealthy like American?
a logical outgrowth of our calvinist heritage, of darwinistic "sink or swim" and "all for me and the devil take the hindmost" rampant individualism. the mobs are the fruits of these awful philosophies.
Yes the calvinist influence is most intriguing to me as an Australian. Most Americans don't know their puritan forebears burned innocent women at the stake in Salem and developed strange cults that forbade sex (which obviously died out
)yes, most 'murricans don't know their history from a hole in the ground. so we will repeat it.
06 Mar 2021, 5:45 pm
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06 Mar 2021, 5:51 pm
)Actually the people killed at Salem were hanged by the neck until dead.
06 Mar 2021, 9:05 pm
)Actually the people killed at Salem were hanged by the neck until dead.
Well that must have provided the impetus for modus operandi for the popular American passtime of lynchings where families made a picnic out of seeing young black men get eviscerated, castrated and hung taking photos and souvenirs. Shucks US tourism sure has changed.
Oh but wait, didn't the capitol rioters carry lynch equipment and audibly call out their intention to lynch Pelosi and Pence? I guess some traditions are actually making a comeback.
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You mean DIY terrorists
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07 Mar 2021, 1:32 am
touché 
07 Mar 2021, 1:49 am
est-ce que tu dis en français?
mauvais fil
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07 Mar 2021, 1:56 am
that just says you're wittier than me. 
07 Mar 2021, 2:08 am
oh allez mon ami
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